TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1143, 23 October 1879, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU.

(From a Special Correspondent.) Monday. THE LA.TB MB M'CABE. The mortal remains of this lamented gentleman were conveyed to their last resting place, on (Sunday, in the presence of a large concourse of the general public, and followed to the grave by a long train of private friends and settlers, from all parts of the district. At the time announced for the funeral cortege to leave the house, on the Ohaupo Road, over 100 gentlemen had assembled, and marshalled themselves in processional order in rear of the conveyance ' which was to convey the body. The route, from the late residence of the deceased, to the Churchyard, would bo impossible for me to attempt to describe, owing to the circumstance that many followed in carriages, and as the cortege advanced on its way, it was met at every comer by people of all grades, and both sexes. It was the largest funeral which has ever been in this district. Amongst those who acted as chief mourners, were his two brothers. The procession started from the house, a little after two o'clock, and arrived at the cemetery, in Rangiaohia, a little before five o'clock. Here, the body was received by the Rev. Father Golden, and carried into the Chapel, where the rev. gentleman read the prayers f or the dead. The coffin was then borne on the shoulders of old friends, to the grave, proceeded by Father Golden, who read the burial service, at the grave, and the deceased was lowered into his last resting place, and the concourse of people who had assembled to see the l=»st of one who had ever maintained the highest respect in their estimation, dispersed. The immediate cause of Mr McL'abe's death, was consumption. The germs of the treacherous disease, which has now terminated fatally, were many years back sown at the Thames. ;V'r McCabe was one of the first on that goldfitld, and one of the many who toiled hard, in the early lays of that field, in search of the precious metal. Re has left the scene of • labour," at the early age of thirty- three years, and his death has caused a general feeling of deep sorrow Mr Me abe has left behind him, a widow and three small children to lament his loss.